Sentences with phrase «studying torah»

In 2002 - 2003, she spent the year in Jerusalem at a women's yeshiva studying Torah and spirituality.

I have seen Book Creator act as a catalyst for meaningful learning for 2nd graders as they create audio recordings to assess reading and speaking skills, and photograph hand drawn pictures while studying the Torah / Bible section of the week.

According to my 9 year old son, who is studying the Torah in school, we refrain from eating chametz because, «when leaving Egypt the Jews did not even have enough time to let the bread rise.»

From the religious angle we have Jews» early and widespread literacy as a sine qua non of studying Torah, which developed into a passion for education generally.

The men spend their lives studying the Torah at various Yeshivas and Temples.

If it encourages people to open accounts or waste their time instead of studying Torah — it's a failure.

A lot of women in this culture are also starting to study the Torah.

«There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts.

your own words give you up that you have no learning and if you have studied the Torah or Christianity it was a waste of time and a serious affair teaching others when you yourself do nt understand.

My advice to this mother is to go back and study her Torah and the Oral Law... and then seek Hashem to find out if the Messiah has come and if He has, Who He is.

A synagogue is by definition a place to study the Torah; «school» was an early image for the church, the «school of Christ.»

I have someone I study Torah with but not as often as I would like.

Yentl had to disguise herself as a man in order to study Torah in the yeshiva.

That Yentl is about a devout Jewish woman who disguises herself as a man to study the Torah puts a deliciously subversive gloss on Kass's appropriative sacrilege.

During this holiday, some families will eat meals, study the Torah and even sleep in the sukkah.

Not exact matches

The study of the Torah (as well as the rest of Jewish scripture) demands the reading of secondary and tertiary sources.

Interesting that you posit this for the week where the Torah portions Sh» lach L'cha and Korah are studied (depends on who you ask).

Study the Mormon faith, study Orthodox and Catholic teachings, look for the root the Abrahmic faiths in the Torah, and you will learn how differing beliefs systems yet share a universal, central truth - the knowledge of a benevolent and lovingStudy the Mormon faith, study Orthodox and Catholic teachings, look for the root the Abrahmic faiths in the Torah, and you will learn how differing beliefs systems yet share a universal, central truth - the knowledge of a benevolent and lovingstudy Orthodox and Catholic teachings, look for the root the Abrahmic faiths in the Torah, and you will learn how differing beliefs systems yet share a universal, central truth - the knowledge of a benevolent and loving God.

«If the Torah can be studied scientifically like any other human document,» he asks, how then can «the movement insist on the binding character of its laws?»

Without a doubt, the significance of historical study for a traditional Christian reading of the New Testament differs significantly from its influence on traditional Jewish reading of the Torah.

@ Drew, you would have to study for a Bar Mitzvah in THIS life You would have to read / chant your portion of the Torah in Hebrew - then you party.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply, almost obsessively devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Judaism, by contrast, with its uncompromising insistence on ritual and its requirement that all Jews engage in Torah study at whatever level they are capable of, involves the human being in all his complexity.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

Anyone who has even studied the Bible in a cursory manner can see that Christ came to «fulfill, not abolish» (Mt. 5:17), and Christ taught about a variety of things his followers should do; otherwise, the Gospels would have simply read «The Torah is obsolete; go now, and live as you please.»

After the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the study of Torah was equated with the worship of God and replaced the sacrificial system of the Temple.

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

(And if the organization in question spent time studying the Bible in depth, they'd would both know, and be able to effectively use the treatment plan outlined in the Torah.)

In the Rav's telling, halakhic man, as a result of his study of Torah and his observance of the commandments, develops a set of coherent attitudes towards, inter alia, intellectual activity, asceticism, death, otherworldliness, esotericism, mysticism, creativity, repentance, and providence.

Jeremy, I have never come across the milk - idea before and therefore checked a number of Bible versions (Holman's, Benner's Mechanical translation, Green's Interlinear Bible, AESV Torah, NET, Jewish Publication Society, Tyndale and Geneva), as well as Hebrew word studies (Strong's, Zodhiates) and a concordance.

The computer teacher is free to offer a short prayer at the beginning of class, but ought not spend half the time on a study of the Torah when the students should be learning Microsoft Excel.

8:19 - 20), who would study and enforce the Torah (Deut.

A real conundrum I find with Christians of various theological persuasions is that they harp on how we must be engaged in studying the Bible, how the Bible is our guide in life, and hold the Bible on a pedestal, much like rabbinic Jews hold the Torah or Catholic hold up their Eucharist, but when it comes to the nitty - gritty of how they have come to know God, no matter how they explain it, it ends up being on the basis of experience.

Likewise, through hard work and innate ability, one person may reach greater attainments in Torah study than will another.

Neusner, an American religious studies lecturer had argued that «Where Jesus diverges from the revelation by God to Moses at Mount Sinai that is the Torah, he is wrong, and Moses is right.»

Ancient - Future Bible Study: Women of the Torah and Women of the Gospels by Stephen J. Binz — I've been asked on several occasions if I could recommend material for a women's Bible study that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrStudy: Women of the Torah and Women of the Gospels by Stephen J. Binz — I've been asked on several occasions if I could recommend material for a women's Bible study that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrstudy that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrible.

Yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish university that includes a focus on the study of traditional religious texts, mainly the Torah and the Talmud.

An old trick created by Paul of Tarsus to try getting us Jews from studying and following our Torah and abandoning our G - d.

The god of the torah and bible has too many self - contradictions to be a valid being to either believe or disbelieve, and if there's nothing to test and study with verifiable results, then it's pointless to discuss except as philosophy.

There have always been Jews who have studied and followed Torah.

True Torah study encourages children to critically think for themselves, and unlike other religions, it encourages them to ask many questions.

While attending Torah study he also would go to the Sacré Coeur and receive Holy Communion.

Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history, modern Jewish theology and philosophy, even undue absorption in the study of the biblical text — all are proscribed as evidence of defection from Torah - true Judaism.

For Jews it was desirable that all males study their sacred scriptures, the Torah.

To practice Torah means not only ethical and responsible living hut also reflective study and pious devotion and worship.

The chapel contains 80 seats and has regularly scheduled religious services on weekdays, including Catholic confession and Mass, a Jewish service and Torah study, a Hindu service, a Mormon service and services for other Christian denominations, along with the Muslim prayer service.

The rabbis had taught that the Torah was best studied at night when it was quiet and the distractions of the day had subsided.

God, who of course was himself occupied in the study of Torah, shuffled his papers, shook his head, and finally replied: «Well, Rabbi Eleazar says so - and - so, but Rabbi Yochanan says so - and - so, and then there is Rabbi Amitai who says so - and - so...»